I read this in the online edition of The Raleigh News & Observer and wanted to share it here. “Serena’s Song” is the world’s first wheelchair-accessible hot-air balloon and was designed by a father for his daughter, who has cerebral palsy. The hot-air balloon offers free rides to people with […]
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Disabled teenagers allegedly told they were ’scaring off other customers’ in salon
By Lucy Cockcroft
Last Updated: 9:46AM BST 09/07/2008
Three disabled teenagers who were allegedly “shooed” out of a beauty salon by staff who said they were “scaring off other customers” have accepted £4,500 in an out of court settlement.
Amy Fox, 19, Aruna Gill, 17, and Jemimah […]
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WASHINGTON - He thinks of her every time he gazes at the painting — a blazing orange sun she drew a few years after the tragedy. It is the only splash of color in his tiny K Street office and it gives him great joy, and a stab of sorrow.
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ADAWatch.org
National Coalition for Disability Rights
OPINION: As the ADA Amendments Act Moves In the House…
The ADA Watch/NCDR Board and State Steering Committee has announced, in a show of unity with other disability organizations, its support of the ADA Amendments Act.
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Yesterday, after reading this article in The New York Times, I was left wondering why in the world the U.S. Paralympics Committee formally filed a protest expressly requesting one of its own athletes be designated ineligible for the Beijing Games? Thank God for his mother!
A Disabled Swimmer’s Dream, a Mother’s Fight
by ALAN SCHWARZ
Published: June 18, […]
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The House is “marking up” the ADA Restoration Act, now named ADA Amendment Act, for the goal of passage in October 2008. DREDF has a great summary of the pros and cons of the compromise bill. Read their comments at http://dredf.org/programs/DREDF_ADARA_Memo_6_16_06_Final.pdf
June 24th is national cal-in day, as in call […]
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Okay! It is no secret – I dislike Utah. I lived in the state from 2001 – 2006, and a practicing Mormon or not, I could hardly stand it. I lived in four different cities. Being married in Utah, and a Mom On WheelZ in Utah merely cemented my discontent for strong Utah culture.
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My friend Harriet died at age 50, Wednesday morning, June 4th. To read some memories and read some of her wonderful writings, go to www.cripcommentary.com/harriet. She was a beautiful writer and story teller. Her book, Accidents of Nature, is geared toward teen readers, but it is a wonderful “crip camp” story. Viva […]
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May 30, 2008 - 11:12PM
By MIKE GOSSIE
FREEDOM NEWS SERVICE
Most kids have to learn to crawl before they can walk, but for 6-year-old Catherine Butler of Chandler, Ariz., who has cerebral palsy, crawling wasn’t that simple.
But it just got a bit easier.
“Before she started this treatment, she didn’t have the left-right rotation when she crawled like […]
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They have one in New York, Anaheim and Minnesota every year. I just went to the one in Anaheim, CA yesterday. That is where I go to dream about all of the Assistive Technology I want and sometimes try it before I buy it. The next one is in Minnesota September […]
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Rita has a BA in Therapeutic Recreation and a Rehabilitation Technology Certificate from San Diego State University. She is a teacher's assistant in a class called “Disability and Society” at San Diego State University; one of her responsibilities is to share her life story with the students. She also volunteers at the United Cerebral palsy Assistive Technology center and with the Assistive Technology Advocate at the local Independent Living Center, Access to Independence. She is very active in her church (the La Mesa Church of Christ) and loves to ride horses and play roll-playing games. She also has a wonderful new piece of exercise equipment called an Equicizer and you can read some of her story at the Equicizertherapy group on Yahoo. She plans to create a web site to tell her story soon and she will add it when she gets the address.
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